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Kotaku Less Friend to Women, More a Friend to Money

This is something that Stark and I have been talking about, off and on, for the last two years; the only thing that is surprising is that this is the first real attempt at anything I would call journalism to get my attention. The topic is women in video games, the discussion is normally about how terrible they are treated. When you talk to women who are really working in games they have surface level complaints, most of them resembling very closely those of the men (long work hours, time off isn’t great, pay is not competitive). When you talk to journalists the conversation is about how they are treated like it is the new form of slavery. I don’t want to go too into the article because it is worth a read on its own right, but I am going to point out that we did a comic about this years ago:

Honestly this is something that I am kind of happy to see, someone that put the footwork in and is more than willing to get the heat of people from it. The truth is that it is a counter point to the only common thread of the last several of “game journalism”. They make some logic leaps, but seem to end up at a reasonable enough spot most of the time. It seems fair and balanced enough, even though I agreed with them before I read the article, and it is one of those things that makes me happy to see someone talking about and being well articulated about. At this point I can only guess and hope that some random company scoops this person up before too long.

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